Michael Jackson with his children on a visit to Harrod’s department store in London in 2005. He tried to shelter them from the glare of the media – sometimes literally.
It’s a world in which new toys arrived as if by magic every day, and included midnight shopping sprees and bleary-eyed visits to museums and amusement parks after dark.
It’s a world where on any given day the nomads could find themselves in Bahrain, Dubai, Ireland, Las Vegas – even Franklin Lakes, N.J.
Jackson had two children by nurse Debbie Rowe: Prince, who is 12, and Paris, 11.
In an interview, Jackson said he fathered his third child, 6-year-old Prince Michael II, nicknamed Blanket, using a surrogate mother he has never met “and my own sperm cells.”
Who ends up raising the Jackson Three from here on out could be decided by a court.
“If the mother did not relinquish her parental rights, she can seek custody,” attorney Gloria Allred, a longtime Jackson foe, told the Daily News yesterday. “If he indicated in his will the person whom he wishes to serve as guardian, then the court will give great weight to his preference.”
The judge can overrule the King of Pop and “do what the court believes is in the children’s best interest.”
Mark Lester, the child star of Jackson’s favorite movie – “Oliver!” – is the godfather of the three kids, but in a brief MSNBC interview after the death was announced he gave no indication that he would seek custody of the kids.
Jackson shocked the world in 1994 when he married Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie. Their 19-month circus of a marriage produced no children – but one very public TV declaration that “yes, yes, yes” they had sex.
Skeptics called the union a sham designed to divert attention from the child molestation allegations that shattered Jackson’s public image.
A year later, Lisa Marie told Jackson to beat it.
Odd path to fatherhood
Then in 1996, the pop star gave the world another shock when he announced he was going to be a poppa – and that Rowe, his “longtime friend of 15 years,” was the momma.
Rowe, a nurse who treated the superflaky singer’s skin condition, denied reports she was paid to carry his kid.
Jackson also insisted the baby was conceived the old-fashioned way – not by artificial insemination – and later moonwalked down the aisle with Rowe.
When Rowe became pregnant with Paris, she said the child was named after the city in which she was conceived and called Jackson a doting dad. “I hope we have lots of kids together,” she said in a rare interview.
Except for vacations, Rowe saw very little of her kids. By 1999, Jackson and Rowe divorced, citing irreconcilable differences.
Then, in the summer 2002, Jackson showed up at a Siegfried and Roy performance in Las Vegas holding an infant, who turned out to be Blanket.
“It’s an unusual family,” conceded psychic Uri Geller, a Jackson family friend.
Jackson shocked even his most ardent fans a few months later when he dangled the baby boy from a Berlin hotel balcony while laughing like a loon.
“It wasn’t a wise thing to do,” Jackson’s brother Jermaine admitted.
The next day, Jackson raised more questions about his fitness to be a father by making his two older kids don veils on an outing to the Berlin Zoo.
Jackson was pilloried by the world press for the sick stunts, but the Germans did not press charges.
Reports that Jackson lived, ate and slept in the same room with his kids fueled more creepy speculation. And after Jackson was acquitted of sexually abusing a teenage boy in 2005, he shut down Neverland for good, grabbed his kids – and went on the road.
To protect them from strangers, he employed three nannies and a dozen guards. To guard them from germs, their cutlery was thrown out after every meal and special filters were installed in the hotel air-conditioners.
from: nydailynews.com
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Michael Jackson with his children on a visit to Harrod?s department store in London in 2005. He tried to shelter them from the glare of the media – sometimes literally….
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